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Old September 11th 07, 02:30 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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For serious scientists, Lassie and her friends were
deemed little more than dumbed-down ancestors of the
wolf, degenerated into panting morons by millennia of
breeding. But a younger generation of researchers has
set out to restore the reputations of our beloved
pets. "Dogs can do things that we long believed only
humans had mastered," says Juliane Kaminski of the Max
Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in
the eastern German city of Leipzig.

It is precisely their proximity to people -- which
disqualified our four-legged friends as a model for so
long -- that now makes them interesting to animal
researchers. "When it comes to understanding human
behavior, no mammal comes even close to the dog," says
Kaminski. Her Leipzig research team has demonstrated
that dogs are far better than the supposedly clever apes
at interpreting human gestures.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...504508,00.html
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